The War in the South

White trash only made its way into white vernacular at a time kind of later on in the 19th century when it was, you know, in the Civil War. They then talked about it as a kind of like the white Southern heritage fighting against this Northern,. what you might call it, your surpers and oppressors and invaders. It's a class war, but so much so that Grant made a actual appeal to white poor Southerners saying you're, this isn't your fight.